Zhen Feitian was startled by the strange man who suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Who are you?"
He pushed the chair and reached down to grab something.
Gao Ang didn't stop him. He crossed his arms, leaned back in his chair, kicked the desk, and took two meters back.
"Aim here, make sure you don't miss!"
Pointing to his head, he said sarcastically, "Look at me, I even gave you some space so I wouldn't get your desk dirty..."
"Bang!"
Without saying a word or waiting for Gao Ang to finish speaking, Zhen Feitian raised his hand and threw a peanut.
"Holy crap, are they serious?"
To be honest, Gao Ang had considered that Zhen Feitian might point a weapon at him and force him to give his name or leave his residence.
I even thought he might call security or something.
But the one thing they didn't consider was that he would open fire directly.
The peanut grew larger and larger in Gao Ang's eyes. When the peanut filled his vision, Gao Ang raised his left hand and pinched it between his index and middle fingers.
This was my first time attempting such a high-risk move, so I used a bit too much force.
The peanut was deformed by pinching it with just two fingers.
Zhen Feitian, who was behind the desk, was stunned by the incredible scene before him.
What?!
Catching bullets with your bare hands?
Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?
Are you making a movie?
He rubbed his eyes, shook his head, and took another careful look. Yes, it was a hand grabbing a bullet.
The bullets are all deformed! They were originally round, but now they've become round at the end and flat in the middle... weird stuff!
Fear leads to panic, and panic leads to instinctively pulling the trigger.
"Bang bang bang..."
All seven peanuts inside the revolver flew toward Gao Ang without missing a single one.
In his panic, Zhen Feitian lost control of his aim and started thrusting wildly with his eyes closed.
"Die! What the hell are you! Die!"
"Ahhhhh~"
After a burst of intense output, Zhen Feitian's emotions were released.
He was completely dehydrated, swaying back and forth in the office chair, and didn't even dare to open his eyes.
After swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva and taking a deep breath, Zhen Feitian slowly opened his eyes.
"Who the hell are you? Are you a human or a ghost?"
The person in front of him was still perfectly fine, and Zhen Feitian completely broke down.
He tried to pull the trigger, but there were no bullets left. He couldn't hear the "click-click" sound; he just kept shooting at Gao Feng to scare people.
Gao Ang sighed, and the seven peanuts he was holding between his hands fell silently onto the wool carpet.
"Can't you speak properly? Is this your way of treating guests?"
Walking behind Zhen Feitian, Gao Ang pressed the stiff Zhen Feitian into a chair and took a bottle of unknown foreign liquor and two wine glasses from the wine cabinet.
He poured a full glass, handed it to Zhen Feitian, and patted his old, youthful face. "Have a drink to calm your nerves, then we can talk slowly."
Back in his seat, he poured himself a glass of wine, took a sip, and smacked his lips with satisfaction. "Mr. Zhen has excellent taste. This wine must be quite expensive, right?"
"Who are you, and what do you want?"
Zhen Feitian had no time to drink. He slumped in his chair, staring at Gao Ang with fear in his eyes.
"Who I am is not important. As for what I want to do... it's very simple. I'll ask you a few questions and collect some debts while I'm at it."
"What's the problem?"
Zhen Feitian completely ignored the debt issue; he wasn't short of money, and he could simply pay to avoid further trouble.
"First, what is your relationship with Lillian? Second, what is your relationship with Xia Jiancheng? Don't rush to answer. Think carefully and tell me everything about your past, word for word. Otherwise... this peanut will be your fate."
Gao Feng grinned as he crushed the peanuts in his hand, then kicked up a cloud of metallic dust.
This action startled Zhen Feitian again, and he involuntarily took another step back until he was close to the French window, putting a distance of four or five meters between himself and Gao Ang, before he felt a little safer.
"Lillian... he's a nobleman from England. We're just business partners. She said she wanted to do something called a 'longevity plan,' so I invested some money. As for Xia Jiancheng, he was also one of my investors, but he withdrew his investment later. I don't know anything else about him."
While Zhen Feitian was speaking, Gao Ang kept his eyes fixed on him, listening to his heartbeat and breathing rate.
His gaze was somewhat stable, but there was still a sense of uncontrollable vacillation.
He appeared calm on the surface, but was very unstable inside.
My heartbeat is unstable, and the frequency has increased several notches compared to when it started...
"You're not being honest! I told you, tell the truth, didn't you understand?!"
Gao Feng asked, enunciating each word clearly.
With each word he uttered, one finger on Zhen Feitian's left hand would automatically disappear.
Yes, it means disappearance, complete annihilation.
At first, Zhen Feitian didn't notice, but he saw the direction Gao Ao's eyes were looking.
When he looked down, he discovered that he was missing fingers on his left hand.
Immediately following was a sharp pain.
The excruciating pain spread throughout his body; his fingers were connected to his heart, and the pain almost made him faint.
But for some reason, I just couldn't faint.
At that moment, Zhen Feitian felt for the first time that fainting was the happiest thing.
"You bastard, who are you? What did you do to me?"
"I didn't do anything, just punishing you a little. I told you, tell me the truth. If you lie again, your right hand will suffer the same fate."
This time, Zhen Feitian stopped talking nonsense and completely cleared up the relationship between him, Lillian, and Xia Jiancheng.
"So, you know about the Changsheng Bio thing?"
"Yes... but I was forced into it. I'm abroad, so I had no choice..."
"Shut up! Do you know what will happen to the country if the 'Longevity Project' goes off? You bastard!"
Gao Ang wished he could skin Zhen Feitian alive.
If he hadn't secretly slipped a message into Director Zhao's email account back then, these bastards' conspiracy would probably have succeeded by now.
When that time comes, even if he has superpowers, he won't be able to solve this huge problem.
That's hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of elites from the Eastern Kingdom...
Gao Ang couldn't hold back any longer and slapped Zhen Feitian several times across the face.
He dared not exert force yet, and could only restrain his strength.
Even with restraint, after a few hard slaps, Zhen Feitian's cheeks were swollen like a pig's head.
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me... 5555"
How could Zhen Feitian possibly dodge such a high speed? Even if he covered his head with his hands, it would be useless.
The pain in his face was secondary; the main thing was that he had never suffered such humiliation before.
Humiliation, pain, the tooth that had come out of his mouth, and even regret... all rushed into Zhen Feitian's mind at once.
"Pfft"
After Gao Feng stopped, Zhen Feitian spat out a mouthful of blood, which contained a few white specks.
“I’ve said everything I needed to say… What more do you want? Killing someone is just a matter of a head falling to the ground. I know you’re no ordinary person, but do you really think you’re invincible? I, Zhen Feitian, am afraid of death, but I will never be insulted to death like this by you!”
Zhen Feitian is undoubtedly a master of deception, and his grasp of human nature is quite accurate.
He could tell that Gao Ang had vented most of his anger.
At this point, he has to act tough to gain some leverage in negotiations.
He told this person some things, but there were also some secrets he never told anyone, including his family.
"Oh ho, you've got confidence now, haven't you? You're getting tough now, aren't you?"
Gao Ang pulled out a tissue, wiped his hands, squatted down next to Zhen Feitian, looked up at his pig-faced face, and said with a grin, "What secrets could you possibly have? Let me sort out the people you know... Xia Jiancheng, he's gone; Lillian, can you still contact her? Linghu Buqi, right? He's being held not far from you now. I bet even if you knew him, you wouldn't be able to see him, right? Besides, they don't even care about a small fry like you. Forget about wanting to see him, even if you look like a rich bastard, the security guards would shoot you dead as soon as you walked up to their door!"
In the end, Gao Ang picked up Zhen Feitian's golden revolver and pressed it against his forehead. "Just like that, with a 'bang,' you and your beautiful celebrity wife who's raising your child back home are done for!"
He tossed the revolver onto the desk, returned to his chair, put his feet on Zhen Feitian's desk, and continued, "You don't need to tell me any secrets. You probably don't know much about the people I mentioned earlier, Xia Jiancheng and Linghu Buqi. At most, you've just heard some things about Lillian, or... she told you to intimidate or seduce you, right?"
Gao Ang shifted his posture, placing his right foot on his left leg and swaying it back and forth. "Did she tell you that the Dort family is some ancient and noble vampire clan?"
How did you know?
The moment the word "vampire" was uttered, Zhen Feitian lost his composure.
This was his most treasured secret; he had originally hoped to use it to save his life from the man in front of him.
It now seems that others know more than he does.
"Not only do I know, I also know the origin of vampires. I don't know how Lillian fooled you, but I think as a modern person, you should at least have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, right? Do you really believe that vampires or gods exist in this world?"
“It’s true, it’s really true, she showed me,” Zhen Feitian nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice, as if trying to convince Gao Feng with the frequency of his head shaking, “She can jump directly from here to the first floor without getting hurt!”
Zhen Feitian pointed outside the building, his voice trembling with excitement, "And she can climb in from the first floor with her bare hands. She can jump over ten meters high in one leap, and she can punch a huge hole in my car. Tell me, what else could she be but a god? Huh?"
Finally, Zhen Feitian shouted it out.
Perhaps thinking of Lillian's amazing performance back then, Zhen Feitian suddenly felt a great motivation.
His face no longer hurt, and he was no longer afraid. He roared at Gao Feng.
Before he could finish gloating, Gao Ang slapped him onto the stall again, yelling, "What kind of bullshit god is this? Is this what you mean?"
After rolling twice on the ground, Zhen Feitian finally managed to get back up.
Hearing Gao Yang's words, he looked up and was immediately stunned:
"You... how can you fly? Are you a vampire too? Then you can't treat me like this. I'm a loyal partner of the Dort family. Let me tell you, what I just said was only part of it. I know many of the Dort family's secrets, such as their mountain base, their overseas... and so on..."
As he spoke, Zhen Feitian's voice grew softer.
He realized he had said the wrong thing...
"Do you think I don't know these things, or do you think I can't dig these things out of your head?"
Ang Gao glanced at Zhen Feitian's left hand and said, "Your left hand is in such a terrible state. Do you want to be a person without hands or feet?"
Upon hearing Gao Ang's words, Zhen Feitian immediately calmed down, shrinking into the boss's chair like a helpless little girl.
“Tell me, where is the Dort family’s base? I’m talking about Mountain Country Base No. 17.”
"You even know about Base 17?"
"Nonsense, I know far more than you do. If you don't want to suffer, behave yourself."
He glanced at Zhen Feitian's left hand again, which startled the guy so much that he jumped in fright:
"Next door, in Death Valley, the overseas base is..."
Death Valley?
Gao Yang was somewhat surprised to receive this information, as he had originally thought the Dort family's base would be Area 51.
Death Valley was not an unfamiliar place to Gao Ang.
He has done some superficial research on many strange places around the world.
For example, Shennongjia in Hubei Province, Lop Nur, and of course, the Death Valley in the mountainous country.
However, his initial understanding was limited to what he saw online or in some unofficial historical records.
Historically, Death Valley can be traced back to the cultural remnants of Native Americans more than 9,000 years ago.
It contains numerous ancient Native American ruins, including some legendary prophecies and myths.
But what truly made Death Valley famous were the events of more than 150 years ago.
In the winter of 1849, a gold rush caravan heading to Gold Mountain crossed the valley, but due to the harsh weather, most of the caravan perished.
The few who successfully traversed the valley sadly uttered "Goodbye Death Valley" as they left, hence the name Death Valley.
Due to the aridity and scorching climate of the area, many gold prospectors who used Death Valley as a shortcut to the Gold Mountain tragically perished in the desert, making Death Valley of the Mountain Country even more well-known.
Geographically speaking, Death Valley is the lowest point in North Mountain Island, with an elevation of only 86 meters.
It is also the hottest and driest place in Beishanzhou.
Another point is that the Mountain Kingdom's Death Valley is a famous air force base and space experiment site in the Mountain Kingdom. Space shuttles are launched and recovered from here several times a year, and Mars probe experiments are also conducted here.
Of course, all of these factors contribute to the mystique surrounding Death Valley.
What makes it even more mysterious is the mystery of the drifting stones.
In one area of Death Valley, a strange phenomenon exists: huge boulders move slowly on their own, leaving long tracks on the dried-up lakebed.
At first, the sight surprised those who stumbled upon it and spread by word of mouth.
In modern times, with the advent of photography, this phenomenon has once again become known to a wide range of netizens.
According to official and scientific explanations, the rocks are encased in ice during winter. As the lakebed melts and becomes muddy, the ice causes the rocks to float on the mud. Strong desert winds then allow the rocks to "walk." A small ice floe, with one flat surface facing down, leaves a trail in the soft mud. Experts also point out that under suitable conditions, even a slight breeze can make the rocks move because the ice reduces friction between their surfaces.
Legends, history, and various speculations related to outer space, coupled with the countless skeletons in Death Valley, have made Death Valley famous far and wide.
"This is interesting. Looks like I'll have to take a trip to Death Valley. Maybe I'll find something interesting."
Stroking his chin, Gao Feng began planning his next destination.
However, before heading to Death Valley, he had to deal with that bastard Zhen Feitian.
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